From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2009-07-22T09:41:17+09:00
Subject: Re: String spliting and inclusion

>
> I hope this makes sense, to summarise I want to break up a string into a
> max of 50 characters without breaking up words.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Stuart
> --
>
>


str = "I did not test this completely so you may need to make some
adjustments to this, but give it a try. This cuts on twenty instead of
fifty characters."

(str.length/20).times do
  arr = str.split(//)
  ess = arr.zip((0...arr.length).to_a)
  tee = ess.reverse.detect{|y| y[0] == " " and y[1] <= 20}
  p str.slice!(0..tee[1]).strip
end
p str



Harry

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